An eight-year-old girl was raped allegedly by a teenager in Alapur area here, police said.

The 18-year-old youth raped the girl yesterday after calling her to his house, they said.

Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh

A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a man using the help of his wife in village Pisavan here, police said.

The incident occurred yesterday, when the girl, who was at her maternal aunt's home, was invited by Sushma to her house. Her husband Ramu raped the girl there, they said.

The girl was found in an unconscious state at the couple's home and she narrated the incident to her father later, they added.

Police have registered an FIR against the accused, who are absconding. A manhunt has been launched to nab them.

Etawah, Uttar Pradesh

A
trainee nurse has alleged that a doctor of a hospital, about 30km from
here, attempted to rape her after confining her to a room, police said
today.

The nurse's mother filed an FIR with Kotwali Kasganj
police station charging that the doctor H J Loyal, Director of Christian
Hospital in Kasganj town, called her daughter to his room on January 12
and attempted to rape her and shoot the videos.

The doctor
threatened the victim not to disclose the incident or otherwise he would
make public the videos, alleged the FIR filed last night.

However, other nurses of the hospital told the police that the allegations against the doctor were "false".

Loyal also dismissed the charges against him as "false".

Circle police officer A K Singh said an inquiry into the charges and counter-charges would be conducted.

Meerut

A 15-year-old girl was gangraped, beaten up badly and burnt with cigarettes allegedly by her friend and his companions, who later dumped her in an unconscious state in Khevai village here, police said.

The accused Sachin had called the victim with the help of his sister on February 3 on a false pretext of marrying her.

He then took the minor girl and his sister to Muzaffarnagar on a motorbike.

Sachin then dropped his sister midway and took the victim in a car in which two persons were already seated. The three then took the girl to an unknown place where they took turns to rape her, police said.

The victim was also beaten up with a belt and burnt with cigarette. She was later dumped in an unconscious state in a forest near Muzaffarnagar district, police said.

The girl later somehow managed to reach a brick kiln where the labourers working there informed the police about her condition.

The victim has been sent for medical examination and a search is on for the three accused, circle officer Ayodhya Prasad said.

Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh

A teenaged girl was allegedly raped by two persons at a village here, police said.

According to a police complaint lodged by the 17-year-old girl today, two unknown persons raped her yesterday at Edepalli of Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh's Krishna district, DSP Lavanya Lakshmi said.

The girl was sent to Machilipatnam Government Hospital for medical examination, police said.

Nashik

Manmad police registered offences against one Ketan Pradeep Nisar under Sections 353, 354, 323, 504 of the Indian Penal code (IPC) last evening, for allegedly manhandling and molesting a lady bus conductor onboard a Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) bus proceeding from Nandgaon to Kothar, the police said.

The accused, who is a government servant travelling in the bus (MH-12D 8342) refused to purchase a ticket and produced his government pass to the conductor. He did not produce his photo identity, when asked do so.

When he was asked to purchase a ticket and pay the bus fare, he refused to to so and allegedly manhandled and molested her.

The lady bus conductor who is a Malegaon resident lodged a complaint with the Manmad police, who arrested the accused, the police said.

Rewari, Haryana

A youth was arrested for allegedly raping a 15-year old girl in Kotia village, 36 km from here, police said.

Ved Prakash Yadav was produced in a Mahendergarh court, which remanded him to 14-day's judicial custody.

Police said, when the girl, a class X student was returning home from her school yesterday, Yadav allegedly raped her.

The police has registered a case of rape, wrongful confinement, criminal intimidation as well as under a section of the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offence Act-2012, against the accused.

Three youths arrested for roughing up women of dance troupeFerozepur, Punjab

Three youths were arrested today for allegedly harassing and assaulting a group of women dancers when they were returning after performing in a marriage function, police said.

Nitin Monga, Rahul and Sajan were arrested, while 12 of their accomplices were booked for misbehaving with and assaulting the dancers on Monday night, DSP Vibhor Sharma said.

The incident took place during a marriage ceremony of a local businessman when the girls belonging to a Zirakpur- based dance troupe were returning from the venue after their performance, Sharma said.

A group of around 20-25 boys intercepted their car outside the venue and forced them to come out and dance with them, he said.

When the girls did not relent, the youths damaged the front glass and other window panes of the car and assaulted the girls due to which several of them received injuries, he said.

One of the girls, who was a resident of Dehradun, got hit in her eye and was later admitted to PGIMER Chandigarh.

The 12 accomplices who were booked are absconding, he said.

New Delhi

A 23-year-old foreign national was allegedly raped by a man whom she had met in a party last week, police said today.

The girl, who is from Beijing and is working as a trainee at a Gurgaon firm, alleged in her complaint that the man called her to his home on January 30 where he raped her.

In her complaint, the girl said she met Tariq Sheikh, 28, at a party sometime back. The girl alleged that she was raped by Sheikh on that night (Jan 30) but approached police only on Tuesday after which the accused was arrested.

Sheikh, a party organiser, was produced before a local court which sent him to 14-day judicial custody.

Hassan, Karnataka

A five-year-old girl was allegedly molested by a youth, who picked her up while she was playing in a park, police said.

However, he dropped her there soon afterwards and sped away on his motorbike, they said.

People at the park noticed injury marks on the girl and informed police.

The girl is being treated at a hospital and further details have to be ascertained from her, they said.Howrah, West Bengal

A school teacher was arrested today for allegedly molesting a girl student of Prashasta High School at Prashasta in Howrah district.

The police said Biswajit Saha was arrested this evening after the parents of the girl lodged a complaint with Domjur police station that Saha had molested her yesterday.

The police said the parents of the class-V student came to know about the incident when she refused to go to school.

The locals gathered at the school premises this afternoon to demand the teacher's immediate arrest.

NEW DELHI — Sexual abuse of children is “disturbingly common” in India, and the government’s response to it has fallen short, both in protecting children and in treating victims, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday.

The group urged the government to better shield children from sexual abuse as part of a broad push for change after the death of a young woman who was gang-raped here in December. Although there are child protection laws on the books, including one passed last year, the rights organization said the measures were not properly enforced.

“Children are sexually abused by relatives at home, by people in their neighborhoods, at school and in residential facilities for orphans and other at-risk children,” said the 82-page report, titled “Breaking the Silence: Child Sexual Abuse in India.”